Total number of Bitcoins hits 10.5 million, production halves to stop inflation

Today the Bitcoin community celebrates the first halving day! It is the day where half of all bitcoins to ever exist have been created and the reward for keeping the network secure and for validating new transactions is being halved from 50 to 25BTC/10min on average.

Total number of Bitcoins hits 10.5 million, production halves to stop inflation

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By Adrianne Jeffries on November 28, 2012 10:44 am Larry

The total number of Bitcoins in circulation just hit 10.5 million, triggering a safeguard against inflation that was hardcoded into the digital currency. This means a drastic change in the number of new Bitcoins being created, which is expected to have a huge impact on the economy that has been developing around the ecurrency.

The safeguard has to do with the "block reward," the number of Bitcoins that can be created at a time, which has dropped from 50 to 25. Bitcoin miners, geeks who configure their own computers to mint the cultish digital currency, have been waiting for this moment for a long time — about four years, which is how long Bitcoins have been in circulation.
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On the hobbyist level I do mine. I had a dozen GPUs running at the peak but now have less. It wasn't feasible for me to do anything larger scale.

This drop in production is also timed with new faster technology meaning the old method of mining will be going away shortly. Some coins were cashed out to cover expenses and now have a small nestegg of coins. I've used them for purchases and it's a very simple solution.

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